fiddle (around) with sth
disapproving UK also fiddle (about) with sth— phrasal verb with fiddle uk/ˈfɪd.əl/us/ˈfɪd.əl/verb
to make small changes to something to try to make it work:
Stop fiddling about with your hair - it looks fine.
Someone's been fiddling around with my computer!
to touch or move things with your fingers because you are nervous or bored:
He was just fiddling around with the things on his desk.
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Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- I tell a lie idiom
- lie
- mess
- patch
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- remediation
- revised
- smooth
- troubleshooting
- tune
- tune (sth) up
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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